.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 299 127
Rank change year-on-year +20 -172 +32
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 526 407 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.05% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.51% 5.18% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 495 350 1,770
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,558 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,688 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,082 7,850 16,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 20.20% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,115 5,562 14,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £66,230 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +10.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -8 130 £55,000 -8.33% 53
South East +28 102 £57,500 +9.52% 54
London -67 84 £85,000 +6.25% 60
Midlands 0 80 £60,000 +14.29% 26
North West +7 70 £55,000 -8.33% 30
East of England +28 65 £87,500 +59.09% 23
South West -13 58 £52,500 -22.22% 15
East Midlands +13 53 £60,000 +14.29% 10
North East -10 39 £65,000 +40.54% 8
West Midlands -29 27 £60,000 +0.84% 16
Yorkshire -75 21 £55,000 -8.33% 16
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.52%) IIS
3 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 357 (67.87%) Azure
2 108 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (17.30%) AWS
4 62 (11.79%) GitHub
5 49 (9.32%) SaaS
6 47 (8.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 44 (8.37%) Azure AI
7 44 (8.37%) Serverless
8 41 (7.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 40 (7.60%) Power Platform
10 25 (4.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (4.37%) Power Automate
11 23 (4.37%) PowerApps
12 22 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (3.99%) Azure Functions
13 21 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (3.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (3.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.04%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.19%) AMQP
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (31.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 150 (28.52%) SQL Server
3 116 (22.05%) MongoDB
4 42 (7.98%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.65%) Power BI
6 26 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.66%) MySQL
9 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.33%) Redis
12 4 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.57%) GIS
14 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
15 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
15 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (8.56%) Git
2 7 (1.33%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.95%) JIRA
5 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.57%) Vite
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) MSTest
7 2 (0.38%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (15.21%) Finance
2 51 (9.70%) Social Skills
3 26 (4.94%) Games
4 16 (3.04%) Banking
5 15 (2.85%) Retail
6 14 (2.66%) Advertising
7 10 (1.90%) Law
8 9 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.71%) Automotive
8 9 (1.71%) Front Office
8 9 (1.71%) Marketing
9 6 (1.14%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.95%) Legal
11 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.57%) Back Office
12 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.57%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 403 (76.62%) Developer
2 238 (45.25%) .NET Developer
3 125 (23.76%) Senior
4 108 (20.53%) Software Developer
5 77 (14.64%) Senior Developer
6 76 (14.45%) C# Developer
7 55 (10.46%) C# .NET Developer
8 53 (10.08%) Lead
9 50 (9.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 48 (9.13%) Software Engineer
11 29 (5.51%) Lead Developer
11 29 (5.51%) Senior Software Developer
12 28 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (5.13%) .NET Software Developer
14 24 (4.56%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (4.37%) Applications Developer
16 21 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (3.80%) Azure Developer
17 20 (3.80%) C# Software Developer
17 20 (3.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (100.00%) .NET
2 235 (44.68%) ASP.NET
3 158 (30.04%) ASP.NET Core
4 117 (22.24%) React
5 104 (19.77%) HTML
6 103 (19.58%) CSS
7 97 (18.44%) Entity Framework
8 94 (17.87%) .NET Framework
9 93 (17.68%) RESTful
10 90 (17.11%) Blazor
11 77 (14.64%) Vue
12 73 (13.88%) AngularJS
13 61 (11.60%) ASP.NET Web API
14 60 (11.41%) Node.js
15 44 (8.37%) ML.NET
16 38 (7.22%) LINQ
16 38 (7.22%) REST
17 34 (6.46%) JSON
18 21 (3.99%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (3.61%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (5.51%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 13 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.28%) Sports Betting
7 11 (2.09%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.71%) Digital TV
10 8 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.33%) iPhone
11 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.33%) Social Network
12 6 (1.14%) 3D Graphics
12 6 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.76%) BBC
13 4 (0.76%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.47%) VMS
2 7 (1.33%) Android
2 7 (1.33%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (46.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 199 (37.83%) Agile
3 155 (29.47%) CI/CD
4 139 (26.43%) DevOps
5 107 (20.34%) Software Engineering
6 99 (18.82%) Microservices
7 64 (12.17%) Machine Learning
8 61 (11.60%) AI
9 54 (10.27%) Containerisation
9 54 (10.27%) Multithreading
10 52 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (9.89%) MVC
11 51 (9.70%) SDLC
12 50 (9.51%) OO
13 42 (7.98%) User Experience
14 41 (7.79%) Analytics
15 39 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (7.03%) Clean Code
16 37 (7.03%) Collaborative Culture
17 35 (6.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 477 (90.68%) C#
2 282 (53.61%) SQL
3 149 (28.33%) JavaScript
4 107 (20.34%) TypeScript
5 39 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.42%) Python
7 12 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.28%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.14%) Bash
9 4 (0.76%) Bicep
9 4 (0.76%) Java
10 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 2 (0.38%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 36 (6.84%) Degree
2 17 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (1.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.23%) QA
2 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.38%) GDPR
3 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.38%) ITGC
3 2 (0.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (21.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 99 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 237 (45.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.61%) Adobe
3 17 (3.23%) Google
4 14 (2.66%) Facebook
5 6 (1.14%) YouTube
6 5 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.76%) Apple
7 4 (0.76%) Sony
7 4 (0.76%) Workday
7 4 (0.76%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.38%) Foundry
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.19%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.19%) Reuters
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.19%) WooCommerce